SAN ANTONIO, Texas – The Loyola Wolf Pack men's and women's swim teams are wrapping up their fall schedule this weekend at Trinity University's Tiger Invitational in San Antonio, Texas, taking part in the first of two of the three days on Friday and Saturday.Â
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Tate Bladon highlighted the first day of the meet with his school-record performance in the 50-yard Freetsyle event. He placed second with a time of 20.87, which took down Loyola's school record for that distance by .01 of a second. Harvey Quiddington made it two school records broken on Saturday, setting a new program-best mark in both the preliminary round and the Saturday evening finals of the 400-yard IM. He finished the day with a time of 4:08.74 to place fourth and break the school record by more than one second.Â
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Other notable performances from Saturday were Tate Bladon's near school-record finish in the 100-yard Breaststoke and Nikolas Presses' third-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke. Bladon swam a 58.78 in his race, which is less than a second away from the program-best time, and Presses had a time of 52.99 in his event.Â
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On the women's side from Friday's action, Jenna Copes and the 200-yard Freestyle Relay narrowly missed out on school records as well. Copes placed third in the 50-yard Freestyle with a time of 24.68, which is slightly slower than the school record she set last year in that race of 24.27. Zada Streter, Sophie Sierveld, Eve Thomas and Copes combined to swim a 1:39.79 in the 200-yard Freestyle Relay to place fifth - a half-a-second slower than Loyola's school record that was set in 2019.Â
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Copes highlighted Saturday's races as well, placing second in the 100-yard Butterfly with a time of 58.32. She set the school record time of 57.60 as a freshman last season. Emily Cooper and Eve Thomas also had solid performances in the 400-yard IM and the 100-yard Backstroke, respectively. Cooper recorded a time of 4:45.65 to place fourth and Thomas swam a 59.95 in take fifth overall.Â
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The two teams are back in the pool Sunday to conclude the meet.Â
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Women's Results
Friday:
200Y Freestyle Relay: 5, Loyola (Streeter, Sierveld, Thomas, Copes), 1:39.79.Â
200Y IM: 4, Sophie Sierveld, 2:15.03; 7, Emily Cooper, 2:16.12.Â
50Y Freestyle: 3, Jenna Copes, 24.68; 14, Eve Thomas, 25.36; 16, Zada Streeter, 26.00
400Y Medley Relay: 5, Loyola (Thomas, Berry, Copes, Sierveld), 4:07.05; 9, Loyola (Cooper, Stempkovski, Balhoff, Streeter), 4:13.92.Â
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Saturday:
200Y Medley Relay: 4, Loyola (Thomas, Sierveld, Copes, Streeter), 1:51.55; 11, Loyola (Carr, Stempkovski, Balhoff, Abernathy), 1:56.93.Â
400Y IM: 4, Emily Cooper, 4:45.65.
100Y Butterfly: 2, Jenna Copes, 58.32; 10, Ella Balhoff, 1:02.44; 16, Hannah Richard, 1:06.38.Â
200Y Freestyle: 13, Mya Baker, 2:02.92.Â
100Y Breaststroke: 6, Sophie Sierveld, 1:10.24; 9, Megan Stempkovski, 1:10.64; 10, Reese Berry, 1:10.95; 11, Zada Streeter, 1:12.41; 13, Lauren Gill, 1:13.17.Â
100Y Backstroke: 5, Eve Thomas, 59.95; 8, Norah Carr, 1:02.57; 14, Madison Gearhart, 1:03.43; 15, Cloe Solbach, 1:03.49.Â
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Men's Results
Friday:
200Y Frrestyle Relay: 3, Loyola (Potter, Bladon, Ervin, Presses), 1:26.16; 10, Loyola (Shaffer, Levine, Jones, Hinton), 1:31.45.Â
500Y Freestyle: 8, Cameron Hinton, 4:52.02; 13, Jackson Courville, 4:58.60; 14, Aiden Hinton, 4:59.79; 16, Andrew Levine, 5:05.91.Â
200Y IM: 7, Harvey Quiddington, 1:56.62.Â
50Y Freestyle: 2, Tate Bladon, 20.87; 7, Eric Potter, 21.70; 8, Aaron Ervin, 21.73.Â
400Y Medley Relay: 5, Loyola (Presses, Quiddington, Smith, Bladon), 3:31.51.Â
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Saturday:
200Y Medley Relay: 7, Loyola (Presses, Quiddington, Smith, Bladon), 1:36.72; 12, Loyola (Jones, Courville, Shaffer, Potter), 1:41.65.Â
400Y IM: 4, Harvey Quiddington, 4:08.74.Â
100Y Butterfly: 9, Jackson Smith, 52.10; 11, Eric Potter, 53.27; 12, Robert Shaffer, 54.21.Â
200Y Freestyle: 11, Cameron Hinton, 1:47.51; 12, Andrew Levine, 1:48.74; 14, Jackson Courville, 1:50.97.Â
100Y Breaststroke: 6, Tate Bladon, 58.78; 7, Harvey Quiddington, 59.10.Â
100Y Backstroke: 3, Nikolas Presses, 52.99; 14, Nick Jones, 56.20.Â
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